Richard Schneider is editor-in-chief. Martha E. Stone is the literary editor. From the magazine's inception, each issue has been organized around a conceptual theme with essays from leading scholars and writers in the given field. Recent themes have included, for example, "The science of homosexuality", "Eros and God", and "Weird Psychology". In addition to these essays, which account for about 60% of the magazine's content, each issue offers book reviews, several poems, and special columns such as "International Spectrum" and "Artist's Profile". In February 2016, the Review launched a redesigned website, which offers a sampling of articles from the current and past issues, writers' guidelines, subscription information, and so on. The mission of
The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide is to provide a forum for enlightened discussion of issues and ideas of importance to lesbians and gay men; to advance gay and lesbian culture by providing a quality vehicle for its best writers and thinkers; and to educate a broader public on gay and lesbian topics. Barney Frank has referred to The Review as the only place where he can write an article confident that the readership is both gay and intelligent. In a 1998
New York Times interview,
Larry Kramer described
The Gay & Lesbian Review as "our intellectual journal, for better or for worse. If you want to deal with scholarly intelligent arguments, there's really no place else we can publish." In 2022, The Review expanded to podcasting with the launch of their first
podcast,
popular, on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, hosted by
William Keiser. The podcast gained media attention for its dissection of the "dark underbelly of the District's queer community, with a specific focus on the cliques and clichés gay men face." == Notable contributors ==